paleodont

paleodont

English

Alternative forms

• palaeodont

Etymology

paleo- +‎ -odont

Noun

paleodont (plural paleodonts)

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   • 1960, McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology

     Artiodactyls first appear in the fossil record in the Eocene as small generalized creatures scarcely distinguishable from primitive insectivores or early carnivores. These were the paleodonts […]

   • 1972, John Gilbert, Africa: Hunters and Hunted of the Savannah (page 119)

     Another family, the Entelodontidae, flourished during the Oligocene and Miocene; they also were pig-like but somewhat larger than the paleodonts, with strong canine teeth and two toes on each foot. They disappeared during the Pliocene.

   • 1983, The New Encyclopaedia Britannica (volume 7, page 574)

     The paleodonts had intermediate types of teeth. Primitive suines appeared in the Eocene.

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• platooned